Re: [LEAPSECS] Historican timezones (Was: Re: Looking-glass, through)

2011-01-14 Thread Ian Batten
On 14 Jan 11, at 1147, Clive D.W. Feather wrote: > Paul Sheer said: >> The Olson time library has all historican timezone information. > > No, it has some historical timezone information. Exeter, Bristol and Oxford, to name but three, had clocks with multiple minute hands to display "railway t

Re: [LEAPSECS] Historican timezones (Was: Re: Looking-glass, through)

2011-01-14 Thread Clive D.W. Feather
Paul Sheer said: > The Olson time library has all historican timezone information. No, it has some historical timezone information. While we try to be accurate, note the basic definition that a zone is a national or sub-national region where local clocks have all agreed since 1970. So if two area

Re: [LEAPSECS] Historican timezones (Was: Re: Looking-glass, through)

2011-01-12 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 13/01/11 00:59, Warner Losh wrote: On 01/12/2011 15:41, Paul Sheer wrote: The Olson time library has all historican timezone information. You can choose a zone, a time (back to the 1800's) and deduce the precise zone offset in minutes and seconds. This is inclusive of wierd time zones that

Re: [LEAPSECS] Historican timezones (Was: Re: Looking-glass, through)

2011-01-12 Thread Warner Losh
On 01/12/2011 15:41, Paul Sheer wrote: The Olson time library has all historican timezone information. You can choose a zone, a time (back to the 1800's) and deduce the precise zone offset in minutes and seconds. This is inclusive of wierd time zones that were based on the hour since sunrise (o

[LEAPSECS] Historican timezones (Was: Re: Looking-glass, through)

2011-01-12 Thread Paul Sheer
The Olson time library has all historican timezone information. You can choose a zone, a time (back to the 1800's) and deduce the precise zone offset in minutes and seconds. This is inclusive of wierd time zones that were based on the hour since sunrise (or some similar wierd thing), as well as